Catherine Gowing was last seen by friends in Mold, Flintshire, at 8pm on Friday 12 October. Photograph: North Wales Police/PA

Search teams involved in the hunt for a missing vet have sealed off a second area where human remains have been found.

North Wales police, who have been searching for Catherine Gowing, 37, since she was reported missing on 15 October, said the remains were found by an off-duty police officer close to the river Dee in Higher Ferry, Chester.